[CentOS] UTC vs local time

[Mogens Kjaer]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:53 PM +0200 Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk>
> wrote:
> 
>>> When to use UTC?
>>
>> Always :-)
> 
> Hehe, I'd love to eliminate local time and I particularly hate daylight
> saving time. 

This is irrelevant.

If I set my BIOS clock to use UTC the date command will still show me
the correct wall-clock time, including DST.

If I dualboot with Windows, Windows will change the clock when DST
changes, then time will be wrong in Linux, hence the need for the
two possibilities.

Mogens
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